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            teſtatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20" xml:space="preserve">Sed præter has communes cauſas ſuntaliæ Societatis noſtræ
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            propriæ, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21" xml:space="preserve">ſane graues, quas hocloco commemorari neque facultatis
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            noſtræ eſt, neque verò modeſtiæ tuæ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s22" xml:space="preserve">Vnum tamen hoc dicam, ita no-
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            ſtræ Societatis homines à te cum ſemper antea, tum maxime poſt ſuſce-
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            ptam nobiliſſimi regni adminiſtrationem acceptos eſſe, vt merito du-
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            bitemus, vtrum pietatem magis tuam, an ſingularem munificentiam
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            admirari debeamus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s23" xml:space="preserve">Qui tuus erga nos animus eò nobis eſt charior,
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            quò clarius apparet, eum ab ardenti quodam Catholicæ religionis tuen
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            dæ, ac propagandæ ſtudio proficiſci. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s24" xml:space="preserve">Accipe igitur noſtrum hoc ſiue
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            grati animi monumentum, ſiue fidei pignus, ſiue obſeruantiæ teſtimo-
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            nium. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s25" xml:space="preserve">In quo, ſi quando tibi oblectare animum libuerit, pro tuo prę-
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            ſtanti ingenio, ac religioſa prudentia non obſcurum agnoſces recte ad-
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            miniſtrandi mortalis regni documentum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">Vt enim librata illa gnomo-
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            nis conſtitutio, varij atque artificioſi linearum ductus, plurimi ſane la-
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            boris atque operę, prorſus inutiles redduntur, ſi nullum ipſis à Sole lu-
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            men affulgeat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">ita etiam humana magnis ſæpelaboribus ſuſcepta conſi-
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            lia irrita ſunt, niſi cęleſtis, veræq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s28" xml:space="preserve">ſapientię radijs illuſtrentur, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s29" xml:space="preserve">ope
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            adiuta diuina ptomoueantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s30" xml:space="preserve">Hoc ſi feceris, confido fore, vt neque
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            tu munuſculum hoc, etſi pro meritorum tuorum magnitudine per-
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            exiguum, pro noſtra tamen tenuitate non minimum, omnino con-
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            temnas: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s31" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s32" xml:space="preserve">ego ad alia eiuſdem generis, quæ ſatis multa inchoata mihi
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            ſunt, elaboranda fiam promptior: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s33" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s34" xml:space="preserve">intelligant cæteri, quanta in te
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            fuit bene de nobis merendi facultas, ſi non tantam, haud multò certe
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            minorem in nobis eſſe grati animi declarandi voluntatem: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s35" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s36" xml:space="preserve">quod ma-
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            ximè velim, tua cum in Societatem noſtram liberalitas, tum in Catho-
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            licam religionem fides, atque conſtantia, quæ ipſa per ſe notiſſima, & </s>
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            illuſtriſſima eſt, opera etiam aliqua noſtra teſtata maneat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s38" xml:space="preserve">Vale.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s39" xml:space="preserve">Romę, Kalendis Aprilis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s40" xml:space="preserve">M D LXXXI.</s>
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